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If you work with words, you need this book!

AUDIENCE FOR BOOK: • Small business owners • Startups • Law students and paralegals ----------------------- • Helps startups choose a name for their business, product, or service that isn’t already claimed by someone else. • Explains how to register a trademark with the USPTO, how to deal...

How the shift toward "technical copy protection" in the battle over digital copyright depends on changing political and commercial alignments that are profoundly shaping the future of cultural expression in a digital age.

Copyright law is a critical issue for authors, librarians, publishers, and information vendors. It is also a complex area, with many shades of gray. Librarians continually need to seek answers to questions ranging from the reproduction of copyrighted works for library users, through the performance...

Media literacy educators rely on the ability to make use of copyrighted materials from mass media, digital media and popular culture for both analysis and production activities. Whether they work in higher education, elementary and secondary schools, or in informal learning settings in libraries,...

How did the Depression-era folk-song collector Alan Lomax end up with a songwriting credit on Jay-Z’s song “Takeover”? Why doesn’t Clyde Stubblefield, the primary drummer on James Brown recordings from the late 1960s such as “Funky Drummer” and “Cold Sweat,” get paid for other musicians’...

We live in an age in which expressive, informational, and technological subject matter are becoming increasingly important. Intellectual property is the primary means by which the law seeks to regulate such subject matter. It aims to promote innovation and creativity, and in doing so to support solutions...

Understanding Copyright Law, Fair Use, Plagiarism, and Public Domain in Writing and Composition within the United States by Robert Alan King is a booklet with over 4,600 words. Before writing or composing any type of work for publication, it is crucial to first have a thorough understanding about...

An established authority in the field, this work provides comprehensive analysis of the law and practice relating to internet domain names at an international level, combined with a detailed survey of the 36 most important domain name jurisdictions worldwide, including the US, UK, Germany, France,...

Basic copyright laws and enforcements have been in effect for hundreds of years. However, laws with such extensive histories can often make understanding them complicated. As publishing moves into a digital arena, copyright laws have become increasingly complex. Authors, Copyright, and Publishing...

In this collection of essays, leading academics, critics, and artists historicize collage and appropriation tactics that cut across diverse media and genres. They take up issues of appropriation in the popular and the avant-garde, in altered billboards and the work of the renowned painter Chris Ofili,...

Digital technology has made culture more accessible than ever before. Texts, audio, pictures and video can easily be produced, disseminated, used and remixed using devices that are increasingly user-friendly and affordable. However, along with this technological democratization comes a paradoxical...

The modern framework in the legal field in the United States for the protection of the copyrights has been found in the 1976 Copyright Law of the United States, as amended, which has been codified in the respective Title 17 of the respective Code of the United States.

Copyright enforcement is a very significant area in IPR, which protects the authors, performers and even computer programmers and performers. The law in the topic was largely not settled till the Amendment Act, 2013 came in to existence. The Author has made earnest efforts to study the Amendment Bill...